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React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices - Third Edition

By : Carlos Santana Roldán
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Book Image

React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices - Third Edition

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By: Carlos Santana Roldán

Overview of this book

Filled with useful React patterns that you can use in your projects straight away, this book will help you save time and build better web applications with ease. React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices is a hands-on guide for those who want to take their coding skills to a new level. You’ll spend most of your time working your way through the principles of writing maintainable and clean code, but you’ll also gain a deeper insight into the inner workings of React. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn how to build components that are reusable across the application, how to structure applications, and create forms that actually work. Then you’ll build on your knowledge by exploring how to style React components and optimize them to make applications faster and more responsive. Once you’ve mastered the rest, you’ll learn how to write tests effectively and how to contribute to React and its ecosystem. By the end of this book, you'll be able to avoid the process of trial and error and developmental headaches. Instead, you’ll be able to use your new skills to efficiently build and deploy real-world React web applications you can be proud of.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Hello React!
4
How React Works
10
Performance, Improvements, and Production!
19
About Packt
Cleaning Up Your Code

This chapter assumes that you already have experience with JSX and you want to improve your skills to use it effectively. To use JSX/TSX without any problems or unexpected behaviors, it is essential to understand how it works under the hood, and the reasons why it is a useful tool for building UIs.

Our goal is to write clean JSX/TSX code, maintain it, and know where it comes from, how it gets translated to JavaScript, and what features it provides.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What is JSX and why should we use it?
  • What is Babel and how can we use it to write modern JavaScript code?
  • The main features of JSX and the differences between HTML and JSX
  • Best practices to write JSX in an elegant and maintainable way
  • How linting, and ESLint in particular, can make our JavaScript code consistent across applications and teams
  • The basics of functional...